κίκι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῖκι (kîki)

Etymology

From Egyptian kꜣkꜣ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kí.ki/ → /ˈci.ci/ → /ˈci.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kí.ki/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ki/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ci/

Noun

κίκῐ • (kíki) n (genitive κίκεως); third declension

1. castor oil
2. croton (Ricinus communis)

   Synonym: κροτών (krotṓn)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κῐ́κῐ; τοῦ κῐ́κεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῐ́κῐ tò kíki	τὼ κῐ́κει tṑ kíkei	τᾰ̀ κῐ́κη / κῐ́κεᾰ tà kíkē / kíkea
Genitive	τοῦ κῐ́κεως toû kíkeōs	τοῖν κῐκέοιν toîn kikéoin	τῶν κῐ́κεων tôn kíkeōn
Dative	τῷ κῐ́κει tôi kíkei	τοῖν κῐκέοιν toîn kikéoin	τοῖς κῐ́κεσῐ / κῐ́κεσῐν toîs kíkesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κῐ́κῐ tò kíki	τὼ κῐ́κει tṑ kíkei	τᾰ̀ κῐ́κη / κῐ́κεᾰ tà kíkē / kíkea
Vocative	κῐ́κῐ kíki	κῐ́κει kíkei	κῐ́κη / κῐ́κεᾰ kíkē / kíkea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κίκινος (kíkinos)
• κίκιον (kíkion)
• κικιουργός (kikiourgós)
• κικιοφόρος (kikiophóros)

 

Descendants

• Latin: cici

Further reading

• “κίκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κίκι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN